Cuff-button.



MLC. STEARNS.

CUFF BUTTON. APPL|CATION FILED MAR. I8. 1918.

1 ,271 958. Patented July 9, 1918.

/N VEN TOR 74 ATTORNEYS MARCUS c. STEARNS, or BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

CUFF-BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

5 Patented July 9, 1918.

Application filed March 18, 1918. Serial No.223,068.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARCUS C. STEAnNs a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Buffalo, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gulf-Buttons, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

The object of this invention is to provide a cuff-button or cuff fastener for use with soft, French cuffs which will permit the wearing edge of such cuffs to be changed so as to expose a comparatively clean surface at the edge, and so as to-permit the length of the sleeve, to the edge of the cuff, to be changed. Cuffs of this character are provided each with four button-holes, two in what may be called the standing portion of the oufl and two in the turned-over portion. In ordinary use the two button-holes at each end of the cuff are in line with each other and the shank of the cuff-button or the link which connects the two parts of the button,

passes through both button-holes. The im- 1 proved button or fastener which forms the subject of the present invention permits the cufi' to be fastened properly with the button holes at each end not in line, so that the turned-over portion can be turned over either more or less than when the button holes are in line. The improved button or fastener comprises the two button heads as usual and a U-shaped connection therefor, so that the two button heads can be made to engage the button-holes of the turnedover portion of the cuff without engaging the two button-holes of the standing part, while the ends of the standing part may be held in proper relation between the parts of the U-shaped connector. The invention will be more fully explained hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawing in which it is illustrated and in which Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a soft cufi with a portion of the sleeve to which it is attached, the cuff being shown as turned over somewhat less than usual so that the two button-holes at each end are not in line.

Fig. 2 is an edge view as seen from the right hand in Fig. 1.

Figs. 3 and 4 are face and edge views of the button or fastener shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Figs. 5 and 6 are similar views showing the connector made of wire instead of fiat metal.

Figs. 7 and 8 are views showing a modified form of the connector, Fig. 7 being in section on the plane indicated by the line 77 of Fig. 8, looking in the direction of the arrows,

Figs. 9 and 10 are views similar to Figs. 5 and 6 showing a form of connector similar to that shown in Figs. 7 and 8, but with a modified clamping means.

A soft or French cufi', such as that with which the improved fastener is intended to cooperate, comprises a standing part a, which is stitched to the shirt sleeve, and a turncd-over part b. In the standing part a, at each end, is a button-hole c, and in the turned-over part b, at each end, is a buttonhole (Z. Usually the cuff is turned over or folded so that the button-holes c and (Z, at each end, are in line or register with each other and in that case the ordinary button or fastener has its head, at each end, passed through the two registering button-holes, the two heads being joined by a link or other connector, which passes through the button holes. When the cuff is worn in this manner, the edge which is constantly exposed becomes soiled quickly and moreover, being subject always to wear along the same line, wears through before the main body of the cuff shows appreciable wear. The object of this invention is to provide an improved fastener which can be used, if desired, with the cuff folded as usual, but will also permit the cult to be folded or turned over on a different line, with the button-holes at each end out of registration. As shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4:, each button head 6 is fixed rigidly, by a shank e, at the corresponding end of a U-shaped connector f which is shown as formed of sheet metal and as provided, on its proximate faces, with teeth f, F. When this fastener is applied to the cuff, when the latter is folded with the button-holes out of registration, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, each button head 6 is passed from within outwardly through the corresponding buttonhole cl of the turned-over part of the cufi.

v The edges of the standing part a are then engaged between the two parts of the U- shaped connector f, which may be formed, as with the teeth f, 7, to engage lightly the fabric of the cuff. By this means not only can the button heads be passed from within outwardly through the button-holes of theturned-over portion of the cuff without being passed from within outwardly through the button-holes 0, but the edges of the standing part a of the cuff are held in proper relation, without gaping, and the form of the cuff is preserved. It will be observed not only that when the cuff has become slightly soiled on the edge when worn' in the usual manner, it may thus have a comparatively clean edge exposed, the wear on any line being also reduced; but that the length of the sleeve to the edge of the cuff can thus be changed.

In the form of the fastener shown in Figs.

, and 6 the button heads 6 are shown as se- V oted dog f in a manner well understood.

In the further modification shown in Figs. 9 and 10 the construction is substantially the same as that shown in Figs. 7 and 8, the U- shaped connector 7 of flanged metal having Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

a spring clamping tongue f operated by a sliding dog 7".

In the use of each of the several modified embodiments of the invention the edges of the standing part of the cuff are engaged between the two parts of the Ushaped connector and may be clamped therebetween.

Various other modifications of form and construction of the improved fastener will readily suggest themselves in view of the foregoing. V

I claim as my invention: 1

1. A cuff-button or fastener for a soft or French cuff, comprising a U-shaped connector adapted to engage between its two parts the edges of the standing part of the cuff and having a button head on the outer side of each part near the end thereof, to pass outwardly through the button-hole in the turned-over part of the cuff.

2. A cuff button or fastener for a soft or French cuff, comprising two button heads and a U-shaped eonnector'adapted to engage between its two parts the edges of the standing part of the cuff, the connector being pro- 5- vided on its proximate faces wlth means to engage the fabric of the cuff.

This specification signed this lzth'day of March, A. D. 1918.

. MARCUS G. STEARNS.

Washington, D. 0. 

